`Assassin` A Clench-jawed Adventure

March 19, 1986|By Bill Kelley, Staff writer

CBS, whose Wednesday series lineup has been getting slaughtered by the competition, returns Wednesday night movies to its schedule with Assassin (9 p.m., WTVJ-Ch. 4, WTVX-Ch. 34). This workmanlike suspense-and-fantasy melodrama, about an ex-secret agent stalking a murderous robot, stars Robert Conrad -- who must have had about three days vacation last year -- in his second of three TV movies for this season. Conrad is the hero, and Richard Young plays the humanoid menace he must destroy. The supporting cast for this clenched-jaw, comic strip adventure includes Karen Austin and Robert Webber.